About this video
This is the “replace a guess with a score” video. It shows how a central library plus quality scoring turns hours of Media Library clicking into a short triage pass. Pair it with the free public-page audit when you want an external crawl, and with the blog when you want the written 60-second checklist.
Key takeaways
- WordPress stores alt text but does not grade it.
- A 0–100 score makes prioritisation obvious.
- Edit manually or regenerate, then re-check the score.
Chapters
- 0:00Why alt quality is invisible in core WP
- 0:45Alt Library + scoring
- 1:40Improve a weak description
- 2:30Review the whole library faster
Video transcript (auto-captions)
Cleaned from YouTube auto-captions for accessibility. Wording may differ slightly from the spoken audio. This is not a reprint of the related blog post.
Most WordPress websites have a hidden accessibility and SEO problem. Every image should have high-quality alt text. The problem is WordPress gives you no easy way to see whether your alt text is actually good. You can spend hours adding descriptions and still have no idea whether they're
helping accessibility, improving SEO, or simply too vague. Today, I'll show you a much better way. Why is this a problem? Because WordPress stores your alt text, but it never tells you whether it's actually any good. Is it descriptive enough for screen readers? Does it help Google understand the image? Is
it unique? Is it keyword stuffed? Or is it simply image one, photo, or left completely empty? For most websites, nobody knows. This is where the Alt Library comes in. Instead of opening every image individually, you get one central place showing every image on your website.
More importantly, every single alt text receives an AI quality score from 0 to 100. That means you instantly know which images need attention and which ones are already in great shape. Really clever part isn't generating new alt text. It's measuring the quality of the alt text you already have. Every
image is analyzed using AI and given a quality score from 0 to 100. That score takes into account accessibility, image context, clarity, and SEO best practices. Instead of guessing which images need work, you instantly know exactly where to focus.
If an image scores poorly, you have two options. You can edit the alt text yourself and immediately generate a new score to see if you've improved it, or you can let AI generate a completely new description based on the image itself, its surrounding content, and accessibility
best practices. In most cases, you'll see the score jump dramatically, giving you confidence that your images are now much more useful for both visitors and search engines. Biggest benefit is that you can review your entire website in minutes instead of hours. Every image is listed
in one place. You can sort by score, identify the weakest descriptions first, and gradually improve your entire media library. It's a much smarter workflow than opening hundreds of images one by one inside WordPress.
This isn't just about generating better alt text. It's about finally understanding the quality of your entire media library. For the first time, you can see which images are helping accessibility, which ones need improving, and how your website is progressing over time. Instead of guessing, you have a
clear, measurable way to improve every image on your site. If you've never reviewed the quality of your website's alt text, I'd encourage you to do it whether you use our plugin or another method. Understanding the quality of your image descriptions is an easy win for
accessibility and search. If you'd like to try the OptiAI alt library for yourself, there's a link in the description. Thanks for watching, and if you'd like more practical WordPress AI tutorials, subscribe because we've got plenty more coming.
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